There are 40 article(s) tagged Architecture:

• May 2019

  • University of Memphis pedestrian bridge takes shape

    Cables have been installed for the University of Memphis’ soaring, pedestrian bridge over railroad tracks and streets. 

    By Tom Bailey May 14, 2019

  • Key designer for important Memphis building dies

    Architect Tommy Roy Polk has died. He worked with famed Memphis architect Roy Harrover in designing iBank Tower — originally known as the NBC Building — in Downtown Memphis. The building was completed in 1973.

    By Tom Bailey May 12, 2019

• April 2019

  • Developer may scale down proposed town houses

    Opponents of a proposed 35-foot-tall building of town houses near Overton Square have met with the developer and said he's willing to compromise.

    By Tom Bailey April 16, 2019

  • Design of Crosstown High wins national award

    ANF Architects' design for the new Crosstown High School inside Crosstown Concourse has received an Award of Design Excellence in AIA’s 2019 Education Facility Design Awards.

    By Tom Bailey April 13, 2019

  • Judges cite high quality of AIA Memphis Design Awards

    The architectural designs for Old Dominick Distillery, Crosstown High and Bartlett Orthopedic Center received the highest honors in the AIA Memphis 2019 Design Awards. 

    By Tom Bailey April 07, 2019

• March 2019

  • Architect Flowers becomes youngest Gassner Award recipient

    AIA Memphis has named Josh Flowers as the youngest member ever to be awarded the chapter's highest honor, the Francis Gassner Award.

    By Tom Bailey March 25, 2019

  • Architecture firm designs office to create more power than it uses

    The new Midtown headquarters for a Memphis architecture firm is designed to generate more electricity than it uses.

    By Tom Bailey March 01, 2019

• February 2019

  • Jimmie Tucker elected into esteemed group of architects

    The American Institute of Architects elects Memphis architect Jimmie Tucker to its class of 2019 College of Fellows.

    By Tom Bailey February 27, 2019

  • Memphian one of 22 receiving ‘Young Architects Award’

    Jason Jackson of Memphis firm brg3s is among just 22 architects in the U.S. to receive from the American Institute of Architects the 2019 Young Architects Award.

    By Tom Bailey February 14, 2019

  • A2H opening Downtown office, growing in Nashville, Lakeland

    The engineering, architecture and planning firm A2H not only has doubled its number of principals, the firm plans to open a Downtown office, expand its Nashville office and has just enlarged its Lakeland headquarters.

    By Tom Bailey February 08, 2019

• January 2019

  • Planning & Development hires first architect as 3.0 approaches

    Office of Planning and Development hires the staff's first architect to help carry out Memphis 3.0 long-range plan.

    By Tom Bailey January 09, 2019

• December 2018

  • I-40’s solar visitor center is open

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony 30 miles northeast of Memphis will be held this week for one of the most unusual visitors center/rest stops along Tennessee interstates.

    By Tom Bailey December 03, 2018

• November 2018

  • Century Building would be razed for car wash

    A familiar East Memphis office building, with its script “Century Building" sign in front and mechanized, louvered windows on the sides, is proposed to be demolished and replaced with a car wash.

    By Tom Bailey November 27, 2018

• October 2018

  • Chance to design bluff-top art museum draws global response

    The two large passenger vans stopped at Union and Front on a gorgeous morning Wednesday and disgorged more than 20 architects from around the U.S. and world as well as Tennessee and Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey October 22, 2018

  • Crosstown Concourse receives prestigious preservation award

    The Crosstown Concourse renovation is one of three national winners of the 2018 preservation awards bestowed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the trust announced Monday.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff October 16, 2018